Jerome Ferriere x Blakstad: an Ibiza exhibition
The French photographer’s iconic black and white film prints of Ibiza will be on display near San Carlos.
Born in Bordeaux in 1966, Jerome Ferriere first arrived in Ibiza in 1992. Captivated by the island’s ambient freedom, counterculture community and extraordinary characters, he moved to the island shortly after, leaving behind a career as a reportage photographer for French newspapers to pursue his dream of capturing the island on film. It was a glorious time in the evolution of Ibiza’s party scene, a hedonistic period that - according to the photographer - centred around ‘sex and drugs and rock’n’roll’. It was also the era that caused the French designer Jean Paul Gaultier to exclaim that he could not work out whether in Ibiza, fashion defined the streets or the streets were defined by fashion.
Some 30 years later, Ferriere is one of Ibiza’s most recognisable photographers and the author of two books capturing the essence of the island, Portraits of Ibiza and Ibiza Rocks. This evening sees the vernissage of a new exhibition of Ferriere’s Ibiza work at the remarkable studio of Blakstad Design Consultants. A work of art in its own right, the studio was founded by the late Rolph Blakstad, himself an artist, ceramicist, painter and historian.
Open daily from 10am until 6pm until October 13.
